The Mail-Journal, Volume 10, Number 45, Milford, Kosciusko County, 5 December 1973 — Page 11

Christmas tree growers harvest, plant annually

WEST LAFAYETTE — For every Christmas tree cut this year, two or three will be planted in the spring to replace it. E. J. Lott, Purdue university extension forester, stresses this fact while noting that Christmas tree growers throughout the nation are currently harvesting

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some 35 million trees. “The Christmas tree crop, particularly in the midwest, is harvested almost entirely from plantations,” explains Lott. “And since growing Christmas trees is a business, these growers replant to keep new supplies coming on annually.

“Christmas tree plantations not only yield a beautiful and natural tree for the season,” adds the forester, “but they also contribute to a better environment. The young trees, as they grow, convert carbon dioxide into pure oxygen. An acre of growing Christmas trees will produce the daily oxygen requirements for 18 people.” In addition, tree plantations provide green belts which are pleasing to the eye and which are used extensively by wildlife as food and cover areas. According to the National Christmas Tree Growers Association, which has more than 3500 member growers from coast to coast, 450,000 acre of land are devoted to the production of Christmas trees in this country. The Christmas tree industry, at the retail level, generates revenues of S7O million annually and provides more than 100,000 part-time jobs and over 7,500 year-around jobs. Lott says that more than 4,000 acres are devoted to Christmas tree production in Indiana. Produced largely on lands not well suited to other agricultural production, the Hoosier tree crop’s estimated retail value is in excess of $3 million. Christmas tree growers strive constantly, by means of new and improved techniques, to produce better quality trees,'the forester adds. They lend nature a hand by shearing the trees in early summer, by controlling insect and disease depredations and by eliminating competing vegetation. “All of these practices,” Lott concludes, “aid in bringing about the many high quality, attractive trees found on retail lots shortly after

Farm trade officials discuss the farm fuel supply

WASHINGTON - Representative of 17 farm groups met here yesterday afternoon with under secretary of agriculture J. Phil Campbell and other US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Officials in the first of a planned series of meetings to explore agriculture’s energy requirements to meet the nation’s food needs. Mr. Campbell said he is confident that the department and farm groups working together will solve the farm fuel problem but cautioned that there is no quick and easy solution and that the problem is one “with which we must live week by week and month by month.” The under secretary announc 1 ed that the agricultural stabilization and conservation service (ASCS) has been assigned departmental responsibility for dealing with the energy crisis. Nicholas H. Smith, assistant deputy administrator of programs for ASCS, has been designated as coordinator of energy with USDA, he said. This function will continue until the energy crisis is resolved, he said. The farm groups pledged to support a fuel conservation effort but warned what consumers may expect if agriculture does not get sufficient fuel. They said that: — Fewer acres would be planted. — Acreage that does not get planted might not be cultivated and-or fertilized to the desired level, resulting in reduced food and fiber production. — Harvesting might be

delayed. — There could be insufficient transportation to move harvested crops. — Commodities could suffer quality damage or even spoilage. Mr. Smith, who served as discussion chairman, reminded participants that the state and county offices of ASCS have been monitoring the farm fuel situation for months and assisting farmers by reporting their needs to the appropriate governmental units established to handle hardship cases. This service will continue, Mr. Smith said, and personnel of these offices will be available also to provide fuel supply information to fanners and to help them verify fuel needs and support their requests. However, Mr. Smith stressed that “There are no fuel spigots at ASCS offices”. Hardship requests for aid in obtaining farm diesel fuel should be made to state governments, he said. Other fuel needs should be directed to the

Yule paintings stir frustration

By ANN RUDY Copley News Service Currier and Ives have contributed to our holiday frustration. They are responsible, for those turn-of-the-century lithographs showing old-time family get-togethers at holiday time. Norman Rockwell didn’t help much either. Their works are full of gay homecomings and simple pleasures. Pondering a Rockwell print, depicting a family saying grace over a humble table spread with farm-style serving bowls and a golden brown turkey, my daughter remarked that the mother of the family looked a lot older than most mothers. “No,” I corrected her. “She was probably the same age, but she didn’t fight it.” Her gray hair was done simply, and her face was without false eyelashes and other barricades against the march of time. One Currier and Ives print is a snow-filled scene with a single, cosy home set back among the woods. The windows are lighted and in the open doorway stands an overweight mother welcoming a sleighfull of giftladen relatives. “Gee,” said my daughter. “That’s what you call a real, old-time Christmas. Right 9 ’’ “Right,” I sighed, and 1 wished, somehow, that it was possible to re-create that scene today. Instead, today’s artist may record our typical

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regional office of petroleum allocation. The USDA will help the agricultural producer identify the offices or persons designated to provide this service, he added. Agronomists and agricultural engineers and scientists will work with USDA in preparing a program of additional farm Jud conservation practices, Mr. Smith said. Representatives of the farm groups pledged their support in making this conservation data available to Agricultural producers. Mr. Smith noted that ASCS has cancelled its state confererces this year in order to conserve transportation fuel. Other department travel will be curtailed or omitted wherever possible, he said. Department officials will meet in Washington later this month with farm equipment manufacturers and others of the farm industry to seek additional fuel conservation measures, Mr. Smith said.

holiday gathering like this: The canvas will be crowded with look-alike homes jammed together on one street which is clogged with cars trying to find parking places. Overhead, the sky is gray with smog and on the roof of one house is not Santa, but a man putting up 20 yards of Christmas lights. He is hurrying. At the open door stands his wife, hair sprayed stiff, weak from losing five pounds and smiling doggedly through her George Master’s makeup job. Currier and lyes, Norman Rockwell, why didn’t you just keep your big paint boxes shut? Two cars are involved in Main street mishap Total was estimated at S3OO in a two-vehicle accident Monday forenoon at Main and Huntington streets in Syracuse. The mishap occurred as one northbound vehicle attempted to turn east onto Main from Huntington, stopped for a pedestrian, and was rammed in the rear by another northbound vehicle who reported he attempted to swerve to avoid collision. Involved was a 1969 Chevrolet driven by Thomas Derem or, 31, r 1 Pierceton, with $125 damage, and a 1965 Mercury operated by Steven J. Knispel, 16, r 4 Syracuse, with $175 damage. Syracuse police investigated.

Wed., Dec. 5,1973 — THE MAIL-JOURNAL

The Christinas tree symbolizes the warmth of the holiday season. It’s a charming custom brought to this country by the Germans who settled in Pennsylvania. CHEESE HORS D'OEUVRE TREE 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened 12 ounces shredded Cheddar cheese 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper 1/4 cup dry sherry 2 tablespoons snipped parsley 1 (2-ounce) jar DROMEDARY Sliced Pimientos, drained TRISCUIT Wafers French' Onion Crackers Beat first four ingredients with electric mixer until well blended. Chill overnight or longer. Soften mixture slightly at room temperature. Fashion into a cone shaped tree using a spatula. With the tip of a paring knife, make bridge spiraling from top to bottom. Just before serving, sprinkle ridge with parsley. Garnish with pimiento. Makes about 2 cups spread.

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